To:G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Written:Written after July 23, 1916Published:First published in 1964 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49.

      Sent from Flums to Hertenstein.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
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      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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Iam sending you MSS. with slips of notes concerning your article (it
is shockingly lengthy. Im-pos-sible...) and with cuts in Varin’s (hegaveme the right to cut “non-war passages” and generalities. I
think it could do withsome morecuts).

Itlooks like it’s going to be something measureless. It’s ghastly. I
don’t know what to do. Yet something has still to be written about
opportunism (I have 1/2 of it ready),about defeatism and about Trotskyism (including the Duma
group+P.S.D.).[2]

Figureout as quickly and accurately as possible how much wealreadyhave.

Ireturned to you the Italian cuttings, as far as I remember. If I
didn’t, I must have left them in Zurich, and won’t get them until I return.

ReBukharin & Co., we should send round to the groups (+Radek??) a
confidential letter by the Editorial Board of the C.O. concerning its
refusal (for Bukharin & Co. are obviously “retailing” already). Or
should we wait a week or so? As for Radek, if he wants to have “our”
version, let him send you theirs.

IfRyabovsky is
Stark,[3]then we should wait for James’s reply. For therehave
beensuspicions both in regard to Stark and Miron. (Myron, as Kamenev
and Malinovsky said, all but confessed to an ugly police affair.)

Salut!Lenin

P.S.You are right not to trust Bukharin.

Isthe enclosed “tab” what you
			      want?[1]Return it.

[1]Themeaning of this has not been ascertained.—Ed.

[2]Thefirst part of the letter refers to the articles forSbornik
Sotsial-Demokrata.

Opportunismwas criticised by Lenin in his article “Imperialism and
the Split in Socialism”; the Duma group and Trotskyism were criticised in
two articles: “Efforts to Whitewash Opportunism” and “The Chkheidze
Faction and Its Role”, which were published inSbornikNo. 2.

[3]P.Ryabovsky—the pseudonym of L. N. Stark. In his letter of
June 12, 1916, to Zinoviev, Ryabovsky wrote that a new publishinghouse, Volna, had been founded in Petrograd and offered him and Lenin to
contribute to the symposiums which it planned to publish.

Itafterwards transpired that the pseudonym “Ryabovsky” was used by
Stark, who was suspected of being an agent provocateur, and Lenin refused
to contribute to these publications.